Anyway, I never posted much but I lurked a lot, and I must say it was a lot of fun here in the OTT, and while my friends thought I was nuts and obsessed, coming here on my lunch breaks, and in my down times was the highlight of the past several months for me, even if I didn't say much.

BlitzGirl wrote:Well, I will say that I am not leaving my computer for the next newpix...oh...hour...

HERESY!!!

(Did Christianity stop after Jesus died? Why should we give up our religion even if it is THE END?)

Well...Jesus came back.

So, you're saying Time will come back. Right? Right??? RIGHT?????

I really can't believe the shock I feel right now. I..there are no words.

I guess that's the plus side of having missed so many pages in the past. I still have lots of OTT to read. But...next week I was finally going to have free time, and post stuff, and give you things I've been working on, and, and, and...

It makes sense to end here. I prefer open-ended conclusions anyways, so this works as an ending for me: the Forty are safe, along with a good deal of their possessions; the rafts can easily be remade into structures, and they've got new land to explore!

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.

The fact that this happened so soon after 50,000 posts makes me wonder if GLR was just waiting for the first convenient ending place after reaching a comment milestone. That or he saw the posts by HereBeUnmappedBits and Fictioneer and though "Hey. that's a good idea."

I want to add my thanks both to Randall and to all of you. And to reiterate something I posted not too long ago. Do something to say thanks to him, buy something from his store, pay him back a little for all that he has brought into your life. And do something in your life to remember all of us here, take up a new exercise program to get healthy, educate yourself on a topic you've always been interested in, do some volunteer work, join a board gaming group and make some new friends, whatever you can think of, but do something positive, and do it in memory of all of us.

There will be a Season 2! I *want* a Season 2! Even if it's next year or what! And above all, I don't want the OTT to end. Well, even if it doesn't "end" for a few days/weeks, there'll be less people there.

mscha wrote:

charlie_grumbles wrote:The frame has become a link to geekwagon.

And I certainly am not going to forgive him for that.

Well, we have to admit it's the best viewer/player/whatever among the three, despite the heretical numbering.

ahecht wrote:The fact that this happened so soon after 50,000 posts makes me wonder if GLR was just waiting for the first convenient ending place after reaching a comment milestone. That or he saw the posts by HereBeUnmappedBits and Fictioneer and though "Hey. that's a good idea."

Oh good, can we blame them?(I knew there was a reason I didn't want to post #50000...)

Knight Temporal of the One True ComicBlitzGirl the Pink, Mopey Molpy Mome

I think we've established that the Randallswhimsyists were right about the Teleology of Time.

And I'd just started downloading bathymetry data to work up a sim of how long (relatively speaking) the pauses would be as the sea spilt over into the Tyrrhenian and Ionian basins. Probably not worth bothering now. Unless someone who is more creative than me in other areas would want it as a basis for future fanfic?

Randall obviously leaves the door open to one or more sequels. But I can see where he has to recharge - producing 3089 frames most have been grueling.

And - I'd need a little time to plan, but maybe I can invite people in my part of the world (I get the distinct impression that charlie grumbles and Kieyrn, at the very least, inhabit it) up the river and into the hills to look at a wowterfall or two? (Duration of trip and amount of rock scrambling can be tailored to the abilities and desires of the participants.) It seems as if getting some bags and going to find out would be an appropriate ending Outside.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.Unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

ahecht wrote:The fact that this happened so soon after 50,000 posts makes me wonder if GLR was just waiting for the first convenient ending place after reaching a comment milestone. That or he saw the posts by HereBeUnmappedBits and Fictioneer and though "Hey. that's a good idea."

b2bomberkrh wrote:I want to add my thanks both to Randall and to all of you. And to reiterate something I posted not too long ago. Do something to say thanks to him, buy something from his store, pay him back a little for all that he has brought into your life. And do something in your life to remember all of us here, take up a new exercise program to get healthy, educate yourself on a topic you've always been interested in, do some volunteer work, join a board gaming group and make some new friends, whatever you can think of, but do something positive, and do it in memory of all of us.

If he sells a "I waited half a hour for one darkening pixel" t-shirt, I'm definitely gonna buy it.

BlitzGirl wrote:Five stages of grief:

Stage 2: Anger

I'll stay with denial until next newpix. And YES, THERE WILL BE A "NEXT NEWPIX".

HAL9000 wrote:It makes sense to end here. I prefer open-ended conclusions anyways, so this works as an ending for me: the Forty are safe, along with a good deal of their possessions; the rafts can easily be remade into structures, and they've got new land to explore!

But they are almost certainly still far below the new sea level, once the Mediterranean stops filling.